To: | DFO, LLC (pautry@dennys.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Registration No. 3768961 - DANNY'S DONUTS - N/A |
Sent: | 01/30/20 12:22:54 PM |
Sent As: | prg@uspto.gov |
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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Owner’s Trademark Registration
U.S. Registration No. 3768961
Mark: DANNY'S DONUTS
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Correspondence Address: |
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Owner: DFO, LLC
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Reference/Docket No. N/A
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The USPTO must receive the owner’s response to this letter within the time period specified below. Respond using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS). A link to the appropriate TEAS response form appears below.
Issue date: January 30, 2020
The Combined Section 8 Affidavit & Section 9 Renewal Application submitted on December 13, 2019, cannot be accepted for the reasons set forth below.
COMBINED SECTION 8 AFFIDAVIT AND SECTION 9 RENEWAL ISSUES
I. Attorney Bar Information
To provide bar information. The owner’s/holder’s primary attorney of record should provide his or her bar information by using the Revocation of Attorney and/or Appointment of Attorney/Domestic Representative form. The newly appointed attorney must submit a TEAS Response to Office Action for Post-Registration Matters form indicating that the attorney appointment form has been submitted and address all other refusals or requirements in this action, if any. Bar information provided in any other area of the form will be viewable by the public in USPTO records.
II. Attorney Statement
III. Signatures on Responses
The only attorneys who can practice before the USPTO in trademark matters are (1) attorneys in good standing with a bar of the highest court of any U.S. state (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other federal territories and possessions) or (2) Canadian agents/attorneys reciprocally recognized by the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) who are appointed in connection with a U.S.-licensed attorney, and who are representing trademark registrants located in Canada. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.17(a), 11.1 11.14, 11.14(a), (c), (e). Foreign attorneys (other than recognized Canadian attorneys) cannot sign responses or otherwise represent registrants before the USPTO. See 37 C.F.R. §11.14(c).
If the owner is not represented by an attorney, the response must be signed by the owner or by someone with legal authority to bind the owner (i.e., a corporate officer of a corporate owner, the equivalent of an officer for unincorporated organizations or limited liability company owners, a general partner of a partnership owner, each owner for registrations with multiple individual owners, etc.). 37 C.F.R. §§2.163(b), 2.184(b)(2); see TMEP §§712-712.01(a)(viii).
A non-attorney who is authorized to verify facts on behalf of an owner under 37 C.F.R. §2.33(a)(2) (such as trademark administrators, accountants, business managers, administrative assistants, and personal assistants) cannot sign responses to Office actions unless he or she also has legal authority to bind the owner. See TMEP §§712.03 and 804.04.
IV. Response Guidelines
ADVISORY: If a response to this Office action is not filed within the response deadline above, and time remains in the grace period, the registrant may avoid cancellation and/or expiration of its registration by filing a new affidavit of use and a new renewal application within the grace period. 37 C.F.R. §§2.163(c) and 2.184(b)(1). Additional fees are required to file a new renewal application during the grace period. 37 C.F.R. §§2.161(d)(1)-(2) and 2.183(b)-(c). For more information about this, please contact the undersigned.
How to respond. Click to file a Response to Post-Registration Office action.
Direct questions about this Office action to the Post Registration staff member below.
/Burns Jr, Glenn R/
Trademark Specialist
Phone: 571-272-0994
Fax: 571-273-0994
Glenn.Burns@USPTO.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE